interlibrary requests

Interlibrary Requests

1.Articles: You have retrieved references on databases, Google Scholar etc, but have access to the abstract only, but you want the full text2. Books: You want to search for books not in UP’s collection

Compiled by Elsa Coertze 2012

American annals of the deaf

Check whether we subscribe to an e-journal with that title

Can’t find the correct title on the list?

We do not subscribe to

this journal in e-format!

Step 2 Select

Select

Check whether we subscribe to the hard copy of the JOURNAL TITLE

mentioned in the reference.

Put in journal titleAmerican Annals of the deaf

We do not subscribe to this journal!

Step 3Determine whether the journal is available from another library in South Africa by using Sabinet databaseIf it is available, you may do an interlending requestYou must be registered as an interlibrary user

Register in advance either online: http://www.library.up.ac.za/interlending/onlineregister.htm or, on level 5 of Merensky libraryIf you are not notified within 3 days what your Username and password are, call 012-420 3229 to get it.

Select

Requesting an article

Click here

Select SACat

Put in the journal title

American Annals of the deaf

select

Journal Title

Select the correct title

It is available from all these libraries

If you are registered, click on Request

Put in your ‘User ID’ and ‘Password’ correctly, and submit

Your personal details will be displayed

Scroll down

Put in the date:

not less than 7 days of requesting

Select

Scroll down to the

bottom of the page

Put in the bibliographic details of the specific

article

In the case of a book

Do a keyword, author or title search

Select the relative title

Step 4

If the article is received in hard copy, you will be notified that you may collect it on Level 5

If the article is received electronically, it will be forwarded to you.

As soon as the book is received, you will be notified to collect it on level 5

Step 5If the (journal) title was not found on

Sabinet, it means that no library in South Africa subscribes to that journal, or has

the book in it’s collection.

If you are a master or doctoral student, ask your information specialist for assistance to request the source

internationally.